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Beaudin, MarcThe Moon Cracks Open A Field Guide to Birds and Other PoemsSaginaw, Michigan Heal the Earth Press 2008 160458307X / 9781604583076 First edition Paperback New SignedOctavo (21.5 cm), pp. 66. Brand new, signed by author on title page. "Beaudin delivers another fine collection of poems from the heartland. Like Roethke, the poems are rooted in the soil, sung from thickets and hooted in the night. Unlike Roethke, Beaudin reveals a nomad's soul with distant mountains tugging at his open heart. This book should best be read at the edge of a swamp or high on a wooded hillside. I haven't enjoyed such singing since Jim Harrison came west" -- Doug Peacock. First Edition.
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10.00 USD

Ferlinghetti, LawrenceHow to Paint Sunlight: New PoemsNew York New Directions 2001 081121463X / 9780811214636 First Edition Hardcover Near fine Near fine Octavo (21 cm), pp. 94. Signed by the author on title page. Tan boards with blue quarter-cloth and gilt spine text. Blue endpapers. Blue jacket with painting by the author. Slight bumping to tail of spine and light rubbing to jacket. Lyric poems from the much-celebrated author of A Coney Island of the Mind and owner of City Lights Books. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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50.00 USD

Frost, RobertThree PoemsHanover, NH Baker Library Press 1935 First Edition Paperback Good SignedQuarto (25.5 cm), pp. [12]. Hand-tied pamphlet with blue paper wrappers, paper label. Signed with lengthy inscription (on verso of first leaf) by Frost to Robert S. Newdick, an Ohio State University professor of English literature (who was to have been Frost's biographer, but died before he could complete the work). No. 31 of 125, limited printing by the Daniel Oliver Associates of Dartmouth College. Includes three poems from Frost's early writing that had not previously been published in book form: "The Quest of the Orchis," "Warning," and "Caesar's Lost Transport Ships" (though all three had appeared in print previously in The Independent). Crane, A18.Front cover and back covers are detached from the rest of the pamphlet, and have dampstaining that does not affect the interior pages. Binding is intact but frail. Includes envelope addressed from Frost to Newdick in Frost's handwriting with cancelled three-cent stamps and the admonition to postal carriers: "Please do not fold." Envelope is in two pieces, has dampstaining and many chips and tears. Inscription reads: "Dear Mr. Newdick, This may interest you as an 'item' and a piece of writing if nothing else. The only poem in it I care for is The Quest of the Orchis, which might well have gone into A Boy's Will. Caesar's Lost Transport Ships was a high school piece. All three poems were published in the old Independent. [indecipherable] yours, Robert Frost April 16, 1935 Amherst Mass." First Edition.
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2500.00 USD